Introduction / Terryl Givens and Philip Barlow -- An interpretive framework for studying the history of Mormonism / Jan Shipps -- Emergent Mormonism in context / Daniel Walker Howe -- The Mormon church in Utah / W. Paul Reeve -- The modern Mormon Church / Matthew J. Grow -- Women in Mormonism / Claudia L. Bushman -- Understanding multiple Mormonisms / William D. Russell -- Mormon studies as an academic discipline / David J. Whittaker -- Joseph Smith and his visions / Richard L. Bushman -- Mormons and the Bible / Laurie Maffly-Kipp -- The book of Mormon / Grant Hardy -- Revelation and the open canon in Mormonism / David F. Holland -- Mormon priesthood and organization / Gregory A. Prince -- Mormon mission work -- Reid L. Neilson -- The Mormon temple and Mormon ritual -- James E. Falconer -- Lived religion among Mormons / Tona J. Hangen -- Mind and spirit in Mormon thought / Philip L. Barlow -- The nature of God in Mormon thought / David L. Paulsen & Hal R. Boyd -- Christ, atonement, and human possibilities in Mormon thought / Terryl L. Givens -- The problem of evil in Mormon thought / James M. McLaughlan -- Embodiment and sexuality in Mormon thought / Samuel Morris Brown & Kate Holbrook -- The social composition of Mormonism -- Tim B. Heaton & Cardell K. Jacobson -- Celestial marriage (eternal and plural) / Kathryn M. Daynes -- Mormon doctrine on gender / Valerie M. Hudson -- Mormons and race / Margaret Blair Young & Darius Aidan Gray -- Authority and dissent in Mormonism / Armand L. Mauss -- Mormonism and media / John Durham Peters -- VI. Mormon culture. Geography and Mormon identity / Richard V. Francaviglia -- Mormon popular culture / Jana Riess -- Mormon folk culture / Eric A. Eliason -- Mormon visual arts / Paul L. Anderson -- Mormon letters / Michael Austin -- Music and heaven in Mormon thought / Michael D. Hicks -- Mormons in Latin America / Mark L. Grover -- Mormons in the Pacific / R. Lanier Britsch -- Mormons in Europe / Wilfried Decoo -- Mormons in Asia / Van C. Gessel -- Communitarianism and consecration in Mormonism / J. Spencer Fluhman -- Mormons and the law / Sarah Barringer Gordon -- Mormonism in the American political domain / Noah R. Feldman -- Mormons and interfaith relations / Richard J. Mouw -- Mormons and Muslims / Daniel Peterson.